Nick Herrera received his Ph.D. and M.A. in Social Psychology
from Stanford University and his B.A. in Psychology from the
University of California at San Diego. As a graduate student, he
conducted research on emotional contagion, as well as beliefs
about birth order differences in intelligence and personality. He
worked as an Honors Intern for the F.B.I. and studied the hunting
patterns of serial rapists and the criminal profiling of serial
killers.